Spark Sport
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Bought the early bird. Excited for the commentary team as Marshy won't be there. Excited for the RWC in general. Hate the business practices of Sky so stoked they don't have it. Though I do wish it would just be free to air anyway but unfortunately that's not how business works.
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@nzzp said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
Got it earlybird. No brainer - streaming is the future, it's useful to get others on there (will be helping at least one older person get it rolling)
Yep, and a I’m confident the coverage will be far superior to anything Sky has delivered just for the fact that you can watch any game or highlights on demand at your leisure. Good on Spark for taking a risk and paving the way forward.
My only consideration is for some folk in rural areas that pay insanely high prices for dodgy internet, not sure if they’ll realistically be able to get on board.
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With MySky I can watch any game on demand at my leisure. I'm not sure how having Spark will make that any better.
In general I much prefer to watch sport on MySky, because the TV remote allows more control with going forward and back at speed than I have ever been able to muster off my phone.
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@Chester-Draws said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
With MySky I can watch any game on demand at my leisure. I'm not sure how having Spark will make that any better.
In general I much prefer to watch sport on MySky, because the TV remote allows more control with going forward and back at speed than I have ever been able to muster off my phone.
I like the fact that I can watch any game on demand on any device. If I am somewhere in the house away from the decoder I am not limited. I wonder if CF Snr will be able to use my spark account too? I assume it's ok, it would only be two devices running at the same time.....
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Day 2 (Saturday) of the world cup is gong to be massive.
3 crunch pool games one after the other.
Australia v Fiji at 16:45 (the not-quite pool of death, potential ripper)
France v Argentina at 19:15
NZ v South Africa at 21:45Then on Sunday, there is
Ireland v Scotland at 19:45
and potential banana skin in the actual pool of death England v Tonga at 22:15Tournament starts off with a bang.
If you wait to see how it pans out with the streaming, you'll be missing out.
BTW, I do not work for Spark ..... just genuinely excited by the pool stages, RWC has now reached that point.
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@No-Quarter said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
@nzzp said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
My only consideration is for some folk in rural areas that pay insanely high prices for dodgy internet, not sure if they’ll realistically be able to get on board.
They're saying you need 15Mbs download speed, so I'm not even close.
I've been a Sky customer for 20 years and a Spark/Telecom customer for 20 years and let me tell you that my satisfaction rating for these two companies is presently well below zero. Spark hasn't even bothered to send me a "Sorry loyal customer for f*cking you" email, let alone offer some discounts.
I'll be watching at friends/family/the pub - saving my money to spend on beer - which has never let me down!
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will this end up like for the Soccer world cup in Aus where Optus' streaming service completely collapsed, and the entire thing ended up being delivered free-to-air by SBS?
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@mariner4life said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
will this end up like for the Soccer world cup in Aus where Optus' streaming service completely collapsed, and the entire thing ended up being delivered free-to-air by SBS?
Let’s hope so.
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@mariner4life That's the fallback plan, apparently.
If the network collapses it gets shown on Duke.
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@mariner4life said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
will this end up like for the Soccer world cup in Aus where Optus' streaming service completely collapsed, and the entire thing ended up being delivered free-to-air by SBS?
Did Optus try to handle the streaming by themselves?
I believe Spark is using the same stream provider as Hulu & NBC Sports etc
